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October 10, 2021 By Nick Carey (Reuters) – The European Union needs to dramatically toughen up CO2 targets for truckmakers to spur a shift to zero-emission models as current goals do not provide the incentive to do so, European campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E) said on Monday. In a study entitled “Easy Ride: why […]

October 10, 2021 SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he was not allowed to attend a league match between Santos and Gremio because the home club did not allow unvaccinated supporters into their stadium. The soccer match was Santos’ first with supporters present since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

October 10, 2021 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sydney’s cafes, gyms and restaurants welcomed back fully vaccinated customers on Monday after nearly four months of lockdown as Australia aims to begin living with the coronavirus through higher vaccinations and to gradually reopen the country. Some pubs in Sydney, Australia’s largest city, opened their doors at 12:01 a.m. […]

October 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Team by team analysis of Sunday’s Turkish Formula One Grand Prix at the Istanbul Park circuit (listed in current championship order): MERCEDES (Valtteri Bottas 1, Lewis Hamilton 5) Bottas won from pole position and set the fastest lap. It was his first win in more than a year and 10th […]

October 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Polish second seed Iga Swiatek eased past Veronika Kudermetova 6-1 6-0 in the third round of Indian Wells on Sunday, while world number seven Matteo Berrettini defeated Chilean Alejandro Tabilo 6-4 7-5 in their second-round match. A dominant Swiatek dropped only three of her first serve points and never faced […]

October 10, 2021 By Simon Evans MILAN (Reuters) -World champions France won the Nations League final with goals from Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappe earning them a 2-1 win over Spain at the San Siro stadium on Sunday. Didier Deschamps side had struggled to get a foothold in the game during a first half dominated […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk threw a rager at the new Berlin gigafactory on Saturday – complete with bright lights, techno music, a Ferris wheel, carousel, arcade and vegetarian food trucks – to announce the start of production at the disputed site that’s faced lawsuits by environmental groups. “We’re aiming to start production in a few […]

October 10, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Auchan does not plan to make a hostile move for Carrefour after the latter broke off talks over a tie-up between the two French retail groups, business daily Les Echos said on Sunday. Le Figaro, another French daily, had reported on Saturday that Carrefour decided to end discussions with […]

October 10, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s public prosecution said on Sunday it had ordered the arrest of three people after thousands of unused COVID-19 vaccines were found dumped along a water channel. It said the vaccines had been allocated to the health directorate in the city of Minya, about 220 km (137 miles) south […]

October 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs cut its U.S. economic growth target to 5.6% for 2021 and to 4% for 2022 citing an expected decline in fiscal support through the end of next year and a more delayed recovery in consumer spending than previously expected. The firm previously expected 5.7% gross domestic product (GDP) […]

October 10, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – The GFG Alliance said on Sunday it had agreed a debt restructuring deal with Credit Suisse for its Australian steel and coal mining assets, and announced plans to inject 50 million pounds ($68 million) into the restart of its Rotherham electric furnace in the United Kingdom. GFG, owned by […]

October 10, 2021 ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Max Verstappen played down his Formula One championship advantage on Sunday and said his Red Bull team needed to find more pace to fend off Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in the last six races of the season. The championship lead has swung between Verstappen and Hamilton all season, with […]

October 10, 2021 By Tuvan Gumrukcu ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Valtteri Bottas hailed one of the best races of his Formula One career after ending a drought of more than a year with a dominant performance at the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday. The 32-year-old Mercedes driver, who is leaving for Alfa Romeo at the end […]

October 10, 2021 By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli backed Mercedes on Sunday after Lewis Hamilton questioned his team’s Turkish Grand Prix strategy and said he would have rather risked getting to the finish on a single set of intermediates. The seven-times world champion said he obeyed against his “gut feeling” […]

October 10, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Jailed former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on a hunger strike, needs treatment in hospital as his condition is worsening, his personal doctor was quoted as saying by TASS news agency on Sunday. The pro-Western politician, who declared a hunger strike on Oct. 1, was arrested after […]

October 10, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) – Algerian President Abelmadjid Tebboune said the return of the North African country’s ambassador to Paris was conditional on France showing it fully respects Algeria, Ennahar TV reported on Sunday. Algeria recalled its envoy to Paris last week, citing comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron in the newspaper Le […]

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about how YouTube has managed to skate along while Facebook has gotten pummeled over platform responsibility concerns. This week, we’re looking at another slippery slope Apple is dancing on the edge of. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can […]

October 10, 2021 By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants and refugees waited outside a United Nations centre in Tripoli on Sunday to seek help in escaping Libya after what aid groups called a violent crackdown in which thousands were arrested and several shot. The migrants say they have faced violent abuse and […]

October 10, 2021 WARSAW (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Poles demonstrated on Sunday in support of European Union membership after a court ruling that parts of EU law are incompatible with the constitution raised concerns the country could eventually leave the bloc. Politicians across Europe voiced dismay https://ift.tt/3uTe56w at the ruling by Poland’s Constitutional […]

October 10, 2021 (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin said on Sunday it had pushed this week’s launch target of its New Shepard vehicle to Wednesday, delaying “Star Trek” actor William Shatner’s sojourn to the edge of space by a day. “Due to forecasted winds on Tuesday, October 12, Blue Origin’s mission operations […]